Alan Ryan
Government policies are confused. We must decide what different institutions are really supposed to be doing. Talk of back to basics summons up images of former prime minister John Major's...
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Alan Ryan
Government policies are confused. We must decide what different institutions are really supposed to be doing.Talk of back to basics summons up images of former prime minister John Major’s unfortunate...
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Leader: Golden goose has to be nurtured
At the end of a year of debilitating uncertainty for higher education, there are some positive messages to be found in the British Council's research on overseas students. They may not like the rain...
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Leader: No honour in this list
The machinations of the British establishment are a mystery to even the most seasoned observers. Who is in and who is out may be obvious to those who pore over honours lists and party invitations,...
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Leader: Golden goose has to be nurtured
At the end of a year of debilitating uncertainty for higher education, there are some positive messages to be found in the British Council's research on overseas students. They may not like the rain...
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Leader: No honour in this list
The machinations of the British establishment are a mystery to even the most seasoned observers. Who is in and who is out may be obvious to those who pore over honours lists and party invitations,...
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No beef with BA
Vinita Damodaran and Richard Grove (Soapbox, THES , December 5) misrepresent our societies' meeting to discuss our response to British Academy funding proposals. We are continuing a constructive...
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It's not all in the mind
Symptoms of illness are often "unexplained" only because medical professionals are not carrying out enough exploratory investigations ("The medical mystery giving doctors a dose of humility", THES ,...
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Counting on a Nobel
It has been known for many years that Nobel prize-winners have a higher citation count than those who do not win a prize, and this fact has been used from time to time to predict future winners....
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Defending real data
May I suggest that David Trim (Letters, THES , December 12) has overlooked the subtle distinction between the human devastation brought about directly by the pro-religious (crusades, inquisition, 9/...
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Fight over fees
Your editorial raises the spectacle of Blair and Clarke wrestling with their own backbenchers over tuition fees (Leader, THES , December 12). It would surely add somewhat to the sum of human...
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Please fund us properly, minister 1
In his attacks on "elite" universities for perpetuating social divisions, higher education minister Alan Johnson has said he wished he had gone to university instead of leaving school at 15. Why didn...
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Please fund us properly, minister 2
Rich kids do law, poor kids do physics - is that what prime minister Tony Blair, an ex-lawyer, really wants? That is the outcome of combining Alan Johnson's belief that law courses will subsidise...
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Survey questioned
Lee Harvey is correct in his critique of the pilot National Student Survey (Soapbox, THES , December 12). The survey will be expensive for institutions, use intrusive methods of surveying students...
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Acts of treason
Top-class researchers do not always make excellent teachers as Stephen Hill asserts ("100 new chairs being created to lift RAE scores", THES , December 12). Cutting-edge researchers are often too...